Lemmy Apps @lemmy.world subarctictundra @lemmy.world 5d ago

Browse Lemmy like it's 2010!

https://github.com/albert-tomanek/lemmy_desktop

This is my attempt at an oldschool, beefed-up desktop app for Lemmy for those of us who yearn for that kind of experience.
Currently it only does reading, if people use it I'll work on comment support too.

If you want to give it a spin, you can download the flatpak file from here and run it.

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I'm only interested if it automatically appends **56K WARNING** to any post with a gallery.
- It doesn't, but for £100/hr I'll come to your house, stand behind you while you browse, and tell it at the top of my lungs whenever I see a gallery loading up.
  
  Ehh, close enough.
- I could add a 56K simulator feature that makes the images load super slowly ;-)
- what does this mean?
  
  My sweet summer child
Wow - this looks amazing! Gonna try it out ASAP.
- Glad you like it :)
  
  Had a quick play - great start!
  
  I've tried going back into it and get a utf-8 error - is this common? I can't log back in.
  
  Some thoughts if you do decide to keep working on it :) Could you add comments as another tab next to post and media. I can only see a way to look at subscribed communities. Can you add the local and all tabs too?
  
  If you fancied adding all the mod and admin tools to it too, that would be amazing 😅
I actually really like the easy access subbed list
I haven’t even downloaded yet but just from the screenshot I love it and the idea. Also, what are you using for that Windows 7 look? I’m assuming it’s not actually Windows 7. I’m realizing I miss that and that was kind of peak computing to me, or at least the best Windows offered.
- it kinda looks like they’ve built it using windows forms which iirc defaults to a windows 7 design style when previewing it (i could be wrong tho)
- I miss that and that was kind of peak computing to me
  
  Yup, I feel exactly the same :D It's called AeroThemePlasma and I dig it so much
Reminds me of GameRanger. We didnt know those were the halcyon days.
Cool project!
i unironically like this. is there similar on linux?
- From what I can see, its a flatpak.
  
  didnt find it in flathub
  
  not really feeling like compiling it and maintaining it

Running this on Fedora, and when I try to log into my account I get the following error:

(lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_path_match: assertion 'root != NULL' failed

(lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_node_get_array: assertion 'JSON_NODE_IS_VALID (node)' failed

(lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_array_get_length: assertion 'array != NULL' failed

(lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_node_get_string: assertion 'JSON_NODE_IS_VALID (node)' failed

(lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_path_match: assertion 'root != NULL' failed

(lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_node_get_array: assertion 'JSON_NODE_IS_VALID (node)' failed

(lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_array_get_length: assertion 'array != NULL' failed

(lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_node_get_string: assertion 'JSON_NODE_IS_VALID (node)' failed

(lemmy_desktop:2): GLib-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: g_error_new_literal: assertion 'message != NULL' failed

(lemmy_desktop:2): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: g_task_return_error: assertion 'error != NULL' failed

(lemmy_desktop:2): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: GTask 0x558c1e157780 (source object: (nil), source tag: (nil)) finalized without ever returning (using g_task_return_*()). This potentially indicates a bug in the program.

Oh, yeah I got this too. It doesn't work with lemmy.ml because they don't provide API access for some reason (at least the API that this client uses)...
- Aha! An answer. Thank you!

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